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13 Mar 2026 7:34 am
under pressure to ignore a range of ethics rules, a large number of Department of Justice attorneys have quit, opting to lose their jobs but save their careers. Between these departures and a purge of legal staff members seen as insufficiently loyal to the president’s agenda, the department has lost thousands of lawyers. It shows: Briefs are riddled with errors. Attorneys come to court grossly unprepared. Worst, court orders stand violated — in some cases, it seems, because there weren’t enough lawyers available to ensure they were carried out.PhiloBeddo » Yesterday, 1:33 pm » wrote: ↑ Student debt, Abortion, Climate Change, Electric cars, Pro Nouns and which bathroom to use is all gone. LOL We have had it with all your made up ****. NOBODY CARES. It is so nice to get back to common sense.
To fill those empty seats, the department has launched an increasingly desperate effort to recruit new hires. (“Don’t be scared off by the transcript requirement,” a conservative law school reportedly told its students. “G.P.A. is not a strong factor.”) Even so, it seems too few lawyers are willing to take the chance. So the Trump administration last week offered up a different solution: a proposed rule that aims to shield Department of Justice lawyers from independent ethics investigations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/opin ... thics.html